QLogic 16Gb FC Adapters for Lenovo Servers

QLogic Corporation announced that its FlexSuite2600 Series 16Gb Gen 5 FC adapters are now shipping for the Lenovo ThinkServer product family.

Continued collaboration between the two companies demonstrates an ongoing commitment to deliver enterprise server and storage performance and satisfy customer needs in IT markets in China and around the globe.

Available under the Lenovo brand, the Gen 5 adapters allow enterprises to improve price-performance, reduce power consumption-per-gigabit, conserve PCIe slots, and support more VMs per server. Lenovo Gen 5 FC adapters are backward-compatible with 8Gb and 4Gb FC storage networking solutions, providing investment protection for existing SAN infrastructure.

“Lenovo ThinkServer enterprise servers are designed to meet business-critical demands by delivering outstanding reliability and exceptional value,” said Darrel Ward, VP, enterprise product group, Lenovo. “Our latest Intel Xeon E5-based servers, combined with QLogic Gen 5 FC adapters, provide the performance and features necessary to drive today’s virtualized data centers and cloud computing environments.“

Lenovo Gen 5 FC adapters are designed to tackle high-bandwidth, I/O-intensive applications where reliability is critical, such as virtualization, streaming media, online transaction processing, backup and recovery and data warehousing. The underlying driver stack in QLogic Gen 5 FC technology is proven in more than 15 million ports shipped to enterprise data centers around the world.

“QLogic Gen 5 FC adapters provide large OEM customers such as Lenovo with a competitive advantage, with unique features such as port-level isolation, and proven QLogic reliability, performance and value,” said Vikram Karvat, VP marketing, QLogic. “This is the second product we’ve announced with Lenovo in less than four months; it signals our growing partnership and expanding momentum in China, a key area for QLogic market expansion.“

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